Maliwawa Figures: A Rock Art Style Like No Other
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2021
Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, has a remarkable range and number of rock art sites, rivalling that of Europe, southern Africa and ...
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The Giraffes of Dabous
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2019
In northern Niger, about half-way between the towns of Agadez and Arlit, and a few miles west of the tar road connecting these two places li...
Nine Mile Canyon: The World’s Longest Art Gallery
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2016
The Nine Mile Canyon in eastern Utah, in the United States, is home to one of the largest concentration of native American rock art in North...
The Fine Cave Paintings of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2016
Of all prehistoric cave paintings discovered in different parts of the world, the ones at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France des...
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2016
Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast desert plateau in southern Algeria, stretching from the borders with Niger and Libya to the east, to as far as...
The Newspaper Rock in Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2015
Newspaper Rock is a 200 square foot rock surface in San Juan County, Utah, that is covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs — rock ...
The Cave of Hands in Patagonia, Argentina
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
Prehistoric rock paintings, handprints and stencils span all continents, and began appearing on rock walls around the world at least 30,000 ...
